Michael Lively

Mike joined the RSSEL group in 2011 as a freshman at Purdue University. He started out studying plasma-material interactions in fusion devices, but transitioned into the computational modeling effort fairly quickly. As an undergraduate Mike wrote much of the code for a new atomistic simulation which combined crater functions to represent ion impacts with kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) surface diffusion. Mike’s primary research focus at UIUC is the development of this model and its extension to new applications in order to support the other research thrusts in RSSEL.